Conversation with Eric Foner, The Second Founding
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- During this session, the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs discussed The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Pulitzer Prize-winner Eric Foner.
In his authoritative history of the United States' post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, Foner traces the arc of three constitutional amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics to their virtual nullification by narrow Supreme Court decisions and Jim Crow state laws. Today these amendments remain strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if only we will take them up.
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I don't believe abolition was enacted because "freedom" was a moral imperative, or that the founders were particularly noble. Most, were descendants of the British aristocracy and property owners.
As the South benefitted from agricultural technology (cotton gin, etc.), and began shifting from a predominantly farming economy to Industrial, slavery had outlived it's usefulness.
However, after emancipation reconstruction began a societal problem of matriculation of former slaves into the labor economy.
"Jim Crow" laws had to be established to control the onslaught of an uneducated, poor and hostile people. This was for lack of any Government planning to cope with massive societal and cultural integration, that lingers to the present.
The Constitution and it's amendments were purposefully crafted to be as vague as possible. The "Myth" of America is still widely romanticized, indoctrinated and employed in rhetoric used in political campaigns.
America has never been a true Democracy, where elected officials represent and are answerable to the people. Yet it's what we're selling, when we decide to intervene in the affairs and politics of foreign countries.
Democracy keeps eroding, as a few Corporate Monopolies dictate government policy, and a debt-driven, private banking system has created a kind of modern feudalism.
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